Today's Famous Birthday

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Robert A. Heinlein


1. The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t have steak.

2. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

3. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

4. The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

5. A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot…

6. Never insult anyone by accident.

7. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.